Climate Change: The latest opportunity to militarise Europe. 

A new report, Climate Change and International Security, written by Javier Solana, the EU's foreign policy supremo and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the commissioner for external relations suggests that the EU will be involved in future resource wars. 

Instead of envisaging a world where competition is replaced with co-operation, they see climate change as an opportunity to create an EU empire. 

Solana is the former Secretary General of NATO and an unabashed militarist. The document he has co-authored reads like a nineteenth century imperial tract that speculates on threats to EU security interests. 

The report claims that 'climate change will fuel existing conflicts over depleting resources, especially where access to those resources is politicised.' 

It suggests that the rapid melting of the polar ice caps is opening new waterways and trade routes. It is also increasing 'accessibility of the enormous hydrocarbon resources in the Artic region' and this will have an impact on 'European security interests'.  

The report sees the planting of a Russian flag under the North Pole as a signalling a new conflict over territorial claims 'which challenge Europe's ability to effectively secure its trade and resource interests in the region'. 

The report predicts new water wars in the Middle East, with Israel's water supplies falling by 60 percent. It also suggests significant decreases in Turkey, Iraq, Syria and Saudia Arabia - countries which are then described as a 'vitally strategic region for Europe'. 

The report also suggests that environmental degradation will lead to 'political radicalisation' and will 'over-stretch the limited capacity of weak governments to respond effectively'. 

The conclusion of this shocking approach to climate change is that the EU needs to invest more in monitoring 'particular situations of state fragility and political radicalisation'.  

There is also a suggestion that EU military and humanitarian interventions must become more integrated to deal with 'security-risks' posed by climate change.  

It proposes a greater link-up with third countries though 'sharing of analysis' - a clear reference to intelligence material.  

Finally, it calls for a new EU Artic policy based on an evolving 'geo-strategy' which takes account of 'access to resources and new trade routes'. 

Climate change represents a fundamental threat to humanity. It calls into question the very existence of a capitalist order which is driven by intense competition and a drive to accumulate for the sake of accumulation. If that form of society is not challenged in the coming decades, the scenario envisaged by Solana and his co-author will come into play - a nineteenth century style imperialist project linked to 21^st century weaponry. 

The Lisbon Treaty creates a new Foreign Policy supremo who will be able to fast-track EU common foreign and security policies. The post will be given to someone of the mindset of Javier Solana - an aspiring EU imperialist who wants to fight new resource wars. 

We should vote No to stop them.